Mr Willi KALTSCHMITT LUJÁN

Mr Willi KALTSCHMITT LUJÁN

Entry in the IOC

1988

Country

GUA (Guatemala)

Born

13 August 1939

Education

Studies in international business administration, human relations, marketing, advertising, communications

Career

President of Kalt Comunicaciones Group; Member of the Board of Directors, Duwest Inc.; Past President of the Guatemalan Plant Protection Association of the Guatemalan Chamber of Industry; Past President of Guatemalan Foreign Trade Commission of FUNDESA; Ambassador to Cuba (1998-2000); Presidential Commissioner for Tourism (2004-2008)

Sports practised

Baseball, private air pilot, tennis, scuba diving, fishing

Sports career

Player, Guatemalan Major League Baseball; boxing official at several editions of the Olympic Games and regional and world championships

Sports administration

Member then President of the Guatemala National Olympic Committee (1980-1992); Vice-President of the Guatemalan Olympic Foundation (2000-2013); President of the Central American Sports Organisation (1982-1990) then Honorary President; Vice-President of the Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) until 1993; Member of the International Assembly of National Organisations of Sports Executive Committee of the Americas; Guatemalan Olympic Boxing Federation President; Member of the the International Boxing Federation (AIBA) Executive Committee and referee judge commission; Member of the AIBA Advisory Group; President of the Organising Committee of the 3rd Central American Games in Guatemala (1986); Member of the Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (2003-); President of the Organising Committee of the 119th IOC Session in Guatemala City (2007); President of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Ethics Commission

IOC History

Member of the Executive Board (2012-); member of the following Commissions: New Sources of Financing (1989-1995), Coordination for the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, Atlanta 1996 (1991-1996), Cultural (1996), Sport and Environment (1995-1999), Press (2000-), International Relations (2002-), Coordination for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, Rio 2016 (2010-); Delegate Member for Protocol (2011-)